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  • From: Olive Tree <olivetrii@yahoo.com>
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  • Subject: [permaculture] Avatar eco movie ~ A message & movement to save Planet Earth?
  • Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 21:33:20 -0800 (PST)



Here's a good sounding plan to use the Avatar movie, which has a pretty
impressive environmental message for a huge corporate film, to support real
grassroots environmental activism!

Anyone here use facebook??

--------- Forwarded message ----------

I believe that Avatar is an amazing teachable moment for Earth activism.

But more importantly -- it could be an opportunity for us to organize a
groundswell of critically needed support for global indigenous environmental
movements.

Avatar has already grossed over $1 billion ... What if we could raise even 1%
of that amount to support grassroots non-profit indigenous environmental
causes?

Better yet -- What if we could convince the makers of Avatar -- James Cameron
etc. -- to donate a meaningful portion of their box office receipts to
indigenous environmental groups?

That is the goal of a new Facebook group -- Avatar $1 billion ~ Save Planet
Earth, Share The Money!
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=265905035119&ref=mf

Please join the group! The goal is to gain 5,000 members -- THIS WEEK -- who
are all committed to raising $5 million for non-profit indigenous
environmental and cultural protection groups. After that, I believe we will
be an unstoppable force to help indigenous peoples save planet Earth!! Let's
show all Avatar fans that we can make a real difference to save OUR planet
... and convince the creators of Avatar that they also need to put their
money into positive action!!
DESCRIPTION OF THE CAUSE: Avatar is breaking records in its popularity,
already earning over $1 billion in box office sales. Avatar has a positive
environmental message, but can it do more by coming to the aid of Earth's
indigenous eco-saviors? The Avatar movie is a beautiful, brilliant fictional
story about another planet where the native population wins victory to save
their homeland from environmental destruction by greedy humans. But here on
planet Earth, indigenous peoples are also struggling to save their ancestral
lands from destruction by corporate exploitation and invading cultures. They
need more help!

Let's encourage James Cameron, 20th Century Fox, and the actors, actresses
and filmmakers who created Avatar to continue spreading their positive
message of environmental justice. We call upon them to donate a meaningful
portion of Avatar's proceeds to grassroots non-profit indigenous
environmental groups who benefit all humanity with their hard work to protect
planet Earth!

We can do it! Let's start by gaining 5,000 members of this Facebook group who
are all committed to raising $5 million for these indigenous leaders. Let's
create the unstoppable momentum of a movement that all Avatar fans, and those
who worked to create it, will be inspired to support and join!



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Olive Tree wrote:
>
> Here's a good sounding plan to use the Avatar movie, which has a
> pretty impressive environmental message for a huge corporate film, to
> support real grassroots environmental activism!

> Anyone here use facebook??

Of course not but I do read Democracy Now. See below.
Who is the owner of that Facebook page? Someone from Hollywood?
connected with production of that movie?

Regarding the following from their blog:
"Avatar is a beautiful, brilliant fictional story about another planet
where the native population wins victory to save their homeland from
environmental destruction by greedy humans. But here on planet Earth,
indigenous peoples are also struggling to save their ancestral lands
from destruction by corporate exploitation and invading cultures. They
need more help!"

Instead of spending their money on a movie ticket they could instead
send it to real environmental activists in El Salvador:

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/12/29/anti_mining_activists_killed_in_el

Anti-Mining Activists Killed in El Salvador
Doraweb
For the second time in a week, a prominent anti-mining activist has been
assassinated in El Salvador. On Saturday, thirty-two-year-old Dora
“Alicia” Recinos Sorto was shot dead near her home. One of her children
was also injured in the shooting. Sorto was an active member of the
Cabañas Environment Committee, which has campaigned against the
reopening of a gold mine owned by the Vancouver-based Pacific Rim Mining
Company. [includes rush transcript]

That's real grassroots environmental activism "saving their ancestral
lands from destruction by corporate exploitation and invading cultures"
where the real rubber meets the real road. But they'll never make a
movie about that nor will it get adequate coverage in the media,
like make front page news in US newspapers...but that silly movie will,
because... its all about greed and $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$,
as usual.

> --------- Forwarded message ----------
>
> I believe that Avatar is an amazing teachable moment for Earth
> activism.

An amazing opportunity for them to teach more fools to part with their
hard earned money to make the moviemakers richer selling yet another
uninteresting, culturally deprived product, in this case an alleged
eco-cartoon.

Just another example of the hollywood corporate socialism entitlement
program, a high dollar movie with high pressure promotion salted with
buzzwords to reach that segment of the viewer market with ever growing
numbers of well intentioned people who are environmentally aware
and truly concerned about human rights issues and events.

I'd sooner believe that monsanto was really trying to save the earth for
organic farmers instead of ruining it promoting widespread use of their
disgusting products.




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